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April 30th, 2008, 06:24 AM
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I need to stop picking up books and finish one of these bastards!!! (2 being re-read):
Dante's Divine Comedy (still), LK Hamilton's Incubus Dreams, The Jesus I Never Knew - Yancey, William Shakespeare's Tragedies and Henry VIII A King and his Court... and the Hockey News... .... and there's a stack waiting... 
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May 1st, 2008, 05:36 PM
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It was a good, fast-paced story that was full of cool ideas if you like vampire books, but what was really fun were the multiple references to Queensr˙che, including Sizemore's acknowledgements page that proclaims "Rage for Order" as being "the best album of all time." I don't agree with that, but it's that good kind of disagreement, where I respect her opinion. But this was another book that featured a main character who was a metal fan who was a capable, intelligent person. So yeah... 
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May 4th, 2008, 12:52 PM
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Currently re-reading “Work to Live” by Joe Robinson. It’s about how Americans are getting burned out by working more hours and taking less vacation than ever. At the same time, many of our European counterparts have a much more practical view of work/life balance – and they are actually kicking our butt in terms of productivity gains.
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May 4th, 2008, 06:44 PM
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Just finished Seize the Night by Sherrilyn Kenyon. I got it for free at the NY Comic*Con a few weekends ago. She signed a copy for me also, which was pretty cool! The book is pretty good, but it's appeal will definitely lean towards women. It has a nice balance of romance and action, and the requisite number (at least 3!) of drop-dead hunky vampires and ancient gods. Her characters develop very well and the story progresses at a nice pace without going too fast. All in all, I give it 4/5 because I couldn't put it for hours and I found myself thinking about the characters when I wasn't reading - and wishing I had more! ..thankfully I DO have more of her novels too read, but I'm really looking forward to her next book Acheron (due out in Aug) which based on one of the main characters from Seize the Night.
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May 4th, 2008, 07:04 PM
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May 6th, 2008, 07:11 AM
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 Sherrilyn was very nice and sweet. She hugged me and seemed genuinely happy when I told her that "The Dream-Hunter" is my favorite book! Then she signed Seize The Night and a poster for me, and took a picture. It was very nice to meet her there and it was cool that she was just hanging out at her booth. No need for extra tickets, autograph lines, worrying about what time, blah blah. It was awesome! 'Cept my signed poster got crushed and torn on the flight home  oh well, a small price to pay! I have a whole slew of her other books that I still have to get to. I just kept buying them as I saw new ones at the store over the last few months. I only read Seize the Night first because I started it on the way home. I can't wait for Acheron!!!! *dies*
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May 7th, 2008, 05:32 PM
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As a follow up, I just wanted to say that Banquet for the Damned held up til the end...something a lot of horror novels don't do. Good stuff! Also I got a cool little email from the author (after I sent a work-related email to Virgin Books' marketing dept about the book) saying I got the influences/comparisons pretty close to his intentions: "I wanted Banquet to be a novel like Peter Straub’s Ghost Story, but with occult horror overtones like M R James’s Edwardian ghost stories, and The Wicker Man (it’s also set in Scotland). " Nice...Even if I didn't work for Virgin's distributor, I'd still be plugging this book!  Now Reading: Total Access: A Journey to the Center of the NFL Universe - Rich Eisen (I needed a football fix!)
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May 8th, 2008, 06:05 AM
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I plowed through John Varley's "Red Thunder" on a relatively short couple of flights. His stuff has always been lying around my mom's house and I always meant to pick one up, but I expected him to be hardcore sci-fi, which is kind of a snore. The biggest problem with sci-fi is that it often sacrifices the story for science - it just becomes a frame to hang the calculations and theories, and if I can't keep up with the hardcore stuff, it just becomes a chore to skip through the stuff I can't follow. I like David Brin because he can bring all that down to more of a layman's level and still tell a fun story. So can John Varley. I will definitely have to get more of his books.
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). There's tons of atmosphere, and I can't help but imagine those classic psychological horror movies like The Wicker Man as I read it. Horror fans keep an eye out for this when it hits the US in September in paperback!